Audio Resources

Audio 8.1: Police and a Racial Divide Part One
Description: There are so many cops who look at the killing of Eric Garner or Mike Brown and say race didn’t play a factor. And there are tons of black people who say that’s insane. There’s a division between people who distrust the police—even fear them—and people who see cops as a force for good. Stories of people living on both sides of that divide, and people trying to bridge it.
Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Audio 8.2: Police and the Racial Divide Part Two
Description: We hear about one city where relations between police and black residents went terribly, and another city where they seem to be improving remarkably. And one of our producers asks: Why aren’t police chiefs talking about race after incidents where unarmed black men are wrongly killed by officers?
Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Audio 8.3: Language
Description: This podcast takes a look at how people may react when others are speaking about racial stereotypes.
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe efforts to reduce racial and ethnic inequality at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis.

Video Resources

Video 8.1: The Difference Between Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering
Description: Gerrymandering has become a go-to strategy in the world of politics as politicians carve up areas that affect the elected representative options in the area. This video looks at the difference in gerrymandering based on race and those based in political party.
Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Video 8.2: U.S. Police Shootings Reflect Structural Racism Across States, Study Finds
Description: Researchers from Boston University School of Public Health release a study that outlines the ways people of color are more than three times more likely to be killed by police in our country than whites.
Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Video 8.3: The Birth and Growth of Racism against Mexican-Americans
Description: This video is a quick discussion of the growth of racism against Mexican Americans during the 1900s. Mexican-Americans did not fit into the established racial categories of black or white.
Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Web Resources

Web 8.1: Color-Blindness Is Counterproductive
Description: Sociologists take on the notion of color-blindness as an obstacle to repairing race relations.
Learning Objective: 8.2: Describe the difference between prejudice and discrimination.

Web 8.2: White Millennials Are Products of a Failed Lesson in Colorblindness
Description: While Millennials are better versed in diversity and colorblindness than previous generations, they’re uninformed on the language of anti-racism.
Learning Objective: 8.3: Provide examples of dominant and minority group contact in the world today.